The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge announced in a March 9 press release that they will soon be offering opportunities for individuals to participate in black bear baiting. According to the release, ...

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Hunting permits for spring bear season are set to open, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has rules hunters should know before heading out.

The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday announced that it will propose a new rule to overturn restrictions imposed by the Biden administration and prior to that, wider restrictions imposed by ...

The bacteria responsible for seal finger was only recently identified. It's tough to detect, and it attacks bone and soft tissue.

When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis. His swollen and ...

A new bill in the Mississippi Legislature could reintroduce black bear hunting for the first time in nearly a century. The proposed legislation would authorize the state's wildlife department to ...

An Alaska doctor has documented the first case of a rare and potentially risky infection from contact with a brown bear. The infection is known as “seal finger” and people typically get it handling ...

I have killed five bears above the black-bear class with a bow in the last six years and tackled two others that proved too much to handle that way and had to be stopped with a rifle. From those seven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 14—Two Montana men have been sentenced each to a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act after reaching ...

MENOMINEE COUNTY, MI - A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer recently investigated a case of illegal hunting after he was tipped off that a man had shot and killed a mother ...

The Salty Dog Saloon landmark on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, at the end of Kenai Peninsula and surrounded by Kachemak Bay. (Lawrence Weslowski Jr./Dreamstime/TNS) A judge has ordered the Alaska ...